Subject: Re: Venting From: Paul Prescod <paul@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 11:25:18 -0600 |
Guy_Murphy@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > ... and which I was addressing, was the difficulties in explaining XSL as > it is currently being implimented. The point to stress here is *currently > being implimented*...This isn't a fundemental flaw in the language but > instead difficulties in dealing with the languages development. Guy, you seem to respond without reading what anyone else writes. This has been covered already. >From now until the end of time there will be ten XSL transformation implementations for every browser/wordprocessor/viewer. XSL transformation is useful for e-commerce, EDI, remote procedure calling, DTD migration and a hundred other things that have nothing to do with style or viewing. > When FOs are supported by browsers I think the above broblem that you > expressed will be alot easier to address. No it will not. If you read the paragraph I wrote you will find that it is about an application of XSL that has NOTHING TO DO WITH BROWSERS. > Concerning the current draft in relation to the above... imagine the FOs > where currently supported by the browser, but we didn't have transforming > parsers.... it would most definately be considered a style language. But there will always be transforming parsers because *they are useful*. XSL transformations will probably be the backbone of a billion dollar e-commerce industry within 3 years. We might as well make that use *legal* and make processors that permit that billion dollar industry legal also. We also might as well give the language that is powering the billion dollar industry a *name*. Paul Prescod - ISOGEN Consulting Engineer speaking for only himself http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco "Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels." --Faith Whittlesey XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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